From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Special instruments with silvered dials for Phantom II L.H. N-2 Series cars, and sourcing a matching petrol gauge.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 15\7\ Scan170 | |
| Date | 20th January 1931 | |
| S/W (Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}) Copy to BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} (Struck through) Copy to DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} U Y7530 Cx{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}/Hn{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}20/EDI/20-1-31. P.II. L.H. N-2 SERIES. With reference to DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/M19-1-31, will you please note that the special instruments with silvered dials and black figures to which EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} refers were obtained for us by W. W. obtained several sets, but we think if we quote one chassis number, viz: 90-GY (one of our last Olympia Show cars) they will be able to trace the source of manufacture of the special dials. We may add that we have not so far seen a petrol gauge with a silvered dial. On 90-GY we had to put up with a standard petrol gauge having a black dial. But we should imagine that the manufacturers of the silvered dials for the speedometer, clock, oil gauge, etc., could, if desired, prepare a similarly silvered dial for the petrol gauge. Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} | ||